Unless the internet ate my post your also ‘edited out’ my entire well reasoned and respectful post on the issue….

Obama would be well served by producing the proper documents or this issue WILL linger like the “Bush AWOL’ canard for years. Unlike the Bush lie, Obama can stop the issue cold by simply producing a single document.

It is in the countries interest to stop this argument cold now and not let it linger.

News the Boiseguardian does not want you to read.

Obama continues to stonewall Supreme Court documents demanding confirmation of citizenship.

Alan Keyes jumps into ring with suit against Kalifornia and Obama.

What does Obama have to hide? All he has to do is release his proof of birth documents with the doctor and hospital signatures. A Certificate of Live Birth does not confirm birth details.

Until then, our nation is under duress. Our constitution is at risk. The flags should be upside down and at half mast.

EDITOR NOTE– We edited out a link to a site soliciting money for OBAMA CRIMES.

Calling for the assassination or hanging of the president, or displaying the flag upside down as a “political statement” are not protected speech, either. And, in fact those actions are treason.

Habeas corpus. It’s byebye.

And, uh, the president-elect was born in Hawaii. Yeah, they’re kind of brown over there too, but they’re Americans. Like it or not.

Neither will the place nearby that sells bears carved with a chainsaw, who thought posting a 5 foot high McCain sign up above their billboard sign was a good idea. Besides the bear carvers screwed us once with their 5 cent coffee offer. You ask for a cup, then the spend a half hour brewing it up to trap you there.

As you mention, Idahoans are pretty spread out across a large area. If you live 50 (or even 15) miles out of town and hear someone breaking into your house, 911 ain’t gonna get anybody out there in time to save your, uh, whatever.

But another reason is simply the economy: As jobs (and homes and cars and IRAs and 401-K’s) disappear, people worry about how to continue some of their habits, such as eating.

Where I live, I see several deer, small rabbits, lots of quail and other assorted critters almost every day. While I dislike killing, and try to obey laws, if I get hungry enough, some of those critters are going to become dinner. Does that make me a conservative?

And, yes, I voted for Obama. Does that make me a liberal?

Yep, I believe in equal rights for all people — black, white, brown, yellow, in between, straight, gay, mixed … heck, even women! (How’s that for defying Idaho tradition?) Does that make me a liberal?

I believe the federal government should be kept as small as practicable, and should do its job, which the Constitution delineates and then says everything else is up to the states. Does that make me a conservative?

I believe the government should stay out of people’s bedrooms and pregnant women’s bodies — a definite conservative stance that so-called conservatives fight against and so-called liberals support.

And, to confuse the issue further, I believe in supporting all 10 of the Bill of Rights amendements, rather than just the First Amendment like the so-called liberals or just the Second Amendment like the so-called conservatives.

So, I have guns and support free speech. Where the heck does that leave me?

Oh, I know: in some strange place where a person thinks for himself and makes his own decisions, rather than just accepting whatever someone with an R or a D printed after his or her name says to think and decide.

How un-American of me!!!

My mother was raised in the midwest. When we moved to Idaho in the late 1940’s she said that the dumbest people in the world live in Idaho. Now I can see why.

As for guns – how many does one person need? I’m old and have never bought a gun. Never felt a need to, don’t feel threatened by anything. Where does all the paranoia come from?

When my father lived alone in his late 80’s he kept a handgun on his night stand because he did feel vulnerable but I also told all the family that if you want to visit Dad call first.